Ms P. yeah, a little broken, less so up in the hollers. Yarding, either a long skyline across a big span, huge deflection, skyline 2200' or so, logging near slope or opposing slope, or our little yarder where a 1200' skyline and 900' of logging is champ. We're looking at 1000' to 1400' from creek to ridgetop.
The scabbards come from Madsens (someone in Idaho makes them) They're the bomb. Best way to carry an axe. I carry a #4, everyone else has the Fiskar 2.5 or 3 pounders. But they love my "pink hydraulic tree lifter" when they see me tip a heavy topped oak over backwards. pink handle, spray paint, of course. Axe head is sentimental, carried it several years now, in several states (all Appalachian), birthday present from the best wife ever, who lets me be a logger!
Burv: Poplar poplar poplar. Not our highest value, but the best damn cutting by far. A soft hardwood. tall and straight. often comes in patches. Like mowing the grass it is. A good poplar patch and you're really going to get the wood down. Volume wise-- a good, regular poplar patch is going to run 18-24 inches dbh, and have about 70' of sawlog or peeler material and a stick of pulpwood. We'll butt off the butt at 27' if its peeler material, or another length if its sawlog and peeler material at some other 2 foot increment plus trim. And like you're talking about, we can have hug 800mbf plus oaks, veneer and all that crap, but I'd rather slam through 500' polars all day than have a handful of thousand footers in my strip, fact is they're a pain-- huge limbs, tough topping. Poplar patches are going to be on north or east facing slopes, and at the heads of hollers. Red cut a 7' dbh poplar last year!!! Nobody could take it though sits at the log yard.
poplar (aka tulip poplar, yellow poplar, TN state tree)
